Shaq returns to practice, may play Thursday vs. Heat

Shaquille O 'Neal groaned as he curled his body 7-foot out of his seat Courtside, then took a step slow to the first practice floor.For Boston Celtics, which was welcome progress.O 'Neal hopes to return to the Celtics lineup when they visit the Miami Heat on Thursday,Air Jordans but neither he nor Boston 'sentered?honor Doc Rivers looked like something that was close to a certainty.O Neal 'missed the last five games of what was diagnosed as a bruised right knee, but he said there persistent pain in the middle of his bones together.I invented a knee brace fibrillation, I will not be affected over there, ''said O 'Neal, as he pulled on knee pads and a flexible sleeve around each of its calves.The fact thathe was joking around is a good sign.At 38 years, and just a bit above its weight list of 325 books,cheap Jordan shoes it doesis not always the dominant force he once was.The Celtics are just asking forhave moments of radiance ofOriginal and O 'Neal believes thathe can still do that.Even if the final number showed him with only nine points and seven rebounds against the Heat in season opens Oct. 26, it was sometimes a load of Miami could not handle.This could be one reason why he wants to come back against one of his former teams Thursday night:?I'm not worried noteam, another brother, ''said.He O 'Neal repeated several times to theaccent. If people had not said Miami was a departure 5-3,Nike Air Jordan O 'Neal asserts thatit doeswould not otherwise have known. ?J 'I put my own things to worry ''O 'Neal said.Like get healthy, for one.He averaged 8.7 points and 5.3 rebounds in the first three games of the season, all in therelatively limited. But the Celtics are seriously banged up in the big man department - Jermaine O 'Neal, another former Heat center, said he still struggling with a sore left knee that kept him sidelined for the second half of the game in Boston Dallas.Knowing that Shaq has said he will try to play against heat.Air jordan shoes Rivers said the Celtics would not rush the process. "Probably not ... maybe both ... who knows?''Rivers said whenhe was asked whether one orAnother O 'Neal would be in the lineup for the second meeting of the season against Miami.There was a time when persistent injury could sour mood Shaquille O 'Neal on everything. This was the case in his last weeks in Miami,Jordan shoes where hip problems thekept off the field and added to a time ofirritant in his life - all his business to Phoenix and the heat starting over with the free agency period 2010 tomind. Shaq eventually landed in Cleveland and now in Boston, where he says thatHe will spend the last two seasons of his career.